[Dxbase] FW: ADIF County Conversion Software

Thu Apr 27 07:39:27 EDT 2006

Although this is not directly a DXBase issue, I think many DXBase users may
find this program useful when importing logs from other contest logging
programs into DXBase. In the past, I have hand edited the ADIF files from
state QSO party logs made with Writelog to get them in the proper format to
import to DXBase without losing the county information. I have not had an
opportunity to try this software, but the description given below by the
author looks good and I plan to give it a try soon. 
73...Dave - N9FN
-----Original Message-----
Subject: 	[CQ-Contest] ADIF County Conversion Software
Date: 	2006年4月25日 22:21:51 -0400
From: 	Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: 	Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
In October 2004, I released a program designed aid in the import of 
QSO party contest logs into general purpose logging programs, 
automating the conversion of county abbreviations (like "ADA") into 
ADIF-compatible county names ("PA,Adams").
Today I released version 2.0 of this program:
	http://software.ad1c.us/
This program should work both in DOS and in an MS-DOS window under 
all flavors of MS Windows. Type the name of the program by itself to 
see the syntax, as well as the complete list of QSO parties supported.
Here are the release notes for the current version:
* Added: DE, HI, KY, LA, MDC, MO, NJ, NV, OK, OR, SC, VA, VT, WA, WV
* Added: 7-land QSO Party, Mid-Atlantic QSO Party, New England QSO Party
* Recognize Writelog-application-specific ADIF tags
* Added warning about county-line QSOs
The program now supports all state QSO parties in Writelog 10.59 as 
well as most state QSO parties in N1MM Logger (a few are not 
supported yet because the contest sponsors have not provided a list 
of abbreviations).
There are a couple things to note:
* Only recommended or official county abbreviations are 
recognized. For example, MTE (not MAN) is the correct abbreviation 
for Manatee, FL. The program will make its best guess (and show a 
warning) if it doesn't recognize an abbreviation.
* County lines are not really supported. The program will give you a 
warning, and generate ADIF "CNTY" tags for each county logged in a 
single QSO, but in the same ADIF QSO record (i.e the ADIF QSO record 
will have multiple "CNTY" tags). Your logging program may choose the 
first one or last one, or something in between. I have two possible 
ways to fix this, but have not decided on one yet:
1. Duplicate the QSO multiple times, once for each county.
2. Use different but unsupported ADIF tags (i.e. CTY2, CTY3, etc.)
If you are a CT user, CT to ADIF already does this conversion. 7QP 
will be added shortly.
Please report any bugs, suggestions for improvements, etc. to me 
directly. Please spread the word on your logging and state QSO party 
reflectors.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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